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Debate Begins: New OT Rules Will Raise Wages — Or Kill Jobs

The White House announced its long-awaited proposal to change the exemption that allows employers to not pay overtime wages to executive, administrative and professional employees. Under current rules, employees who make $455 or NPR reporter Yuki ...

nhpr.orgJune 30, 2015

Rainy Hunnicutt: Astros finish on top in delayed affair

After Brett Sullivan got on base via a Greeneville error, Rodriguez yanked his first Appalachian League home run well over the left-field wall on a 1-1 pitch. Cesar cut the lead in half in the on a groundout by Rodriguez. It was his third RBI of ...

www.bdtonline.comJuly 1, 2015

We Should Drop the Leap Second Before It Causes Real Damage

But according to Linus Torvalds—the man who oversees the Linux computer operating system, which now runs so many of the leading Internet services and so much of Wall Street—the leap second typically causes unexpected issues. “Almost every time we ...

www.wired.comJune 30, 2015

Firefighters making progress on Sleepy Hollow fire

Some homeowners were given a matter of minutes to flee the approaching wall of flames. “This has been a very trying time for the residents in the area,” Chief Mike Brunnet with Chelan County Fire District 1 said. On Tuesday morning fire bosses reported ...

In honor of the All-Star Game, many major institutions – from the Cincinnati Art Museum to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to the Cincinnati Museum Center – are staging special baseball-themed exhibits, focusing on the city's long ...

www.cleveland.comJune 30, 2015

Draft Pick Young, Pacers Have Family Ties

There's a photo hanging on the wall at his home in Houston taken at his press conference, with a photo of Pacers president Larry Bird in the background. An assistant coach at "It's just a long story," he said Tuesday morning when he met with the ...

www.nba.comJune 30, 2015

Pride of Place

Over four days, the gallery was open around the clock. It had to be, because Rirkrit Tiravanija had removed a couple of doors and windows to the street, where a line formed each day. Inside, from noon to six o'clock, a dozen beautiful horses stood ...

artforum.comJuly 1, 2015

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Business leaders say hiking overtime pay would reduce hiring, while unions say the change would stimulate the economy by raising incomes for about 5 million Americans. The White House announced its long-awaited proposal to change the exemption that allows employers to not pay overtime wages to executive, administrative and professional employees. In contrast, employees who are paid by the hour, or earn salaries of less than $455 a week, generally are entitled to collect overtime pay for hours worked beyond the standard 40-hour week. "Right now, too many Americans are working long days for less pay than they deserve," Obama wrote in an op-ed published Monday on the Huffington Post. That would be "good for workers who want fair pay, and it's good for business owners who are already paying their employees what they deserve—since those who are doing right by their employees are undercut by competitors who aren't," Obama wrote. A White House fact sheet said that under the "normal rule-making process," the Labor Department will publish the proposed rule in.

The tarp came out at 9 o'clock straight up, as heavy rain slammed the ballpark at a 45-degree angle and lightning lit up the sky. A fraction of the announced attendance of 641 stayed around to witness the end, a 10-6 victory by Greeneville (5-3). Princeton (4-4) starting pitcher Jose Alvarado cruised early, striking out the first four batters he faced. After Brett Sullivan got on base via a Greeneville error, Rodriguez yanked his first Appalachian League home run well over the left-field wall on a 1-1 pitch. On the first pitch he faced, he smacked a grounder through the middle of the diamond for the Astros' first hit. The Astros loaded the bases with one out in the third and Alvarado hit Connor Goedert with a pitch, tying the game. The next batter, Cesar, took a 2-2 pitch over the center-field wall for the first homer of his professional career. After giving up five earned runs in the inning, Alvarado struck out his fifth and final batter for the third out. Greeneville starter Yhoan Acosta gave up back-to-back singles to Angel Perez and Grady, uncorked a wild pitch and yielded a double to Jose Rojas. Butera, the first batter faced by reliever Juan Delis, laced a.

The latest leap second couldn’t have come at a worse time. And then the leap second will appear —a 61st second in the last minute of the day, Coordinated Universal Time —tossing a curve ball at all those computers that drive the worldwide financial markets. “It’s something we can do without,” says Jock Percy, the founder and CEO of Perseus, a company that’s helping financial operations and other businesses prepare for the leap second. The leap second is what keeps the world’s official clocks—and the world’s computers—in sync with the rotation of the earth. About 50 years ago, we started keeping time with atomic clocks— clocks that operate according to the oscillations of a tiny atom. —and in order to keep these clocks in step with the earth, we add an extra second every now and again. 'We're confusing the measurement of time with time. The trouble is: the world’s computers, often running on ancient software code, aren’t always configured to accommodate this extra second. So did the systems that underpin Australia’s Qantas Airways, causing long flight delays in Brisbane, Perth, and Melbourne. The good news is that after the widespread problems in 2012, businesses are more aware of the leap second, and that may mean they’re better prepared.

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As baseball fever peaks in Cincinnati, a fan's guide to All-Star game, city's rich history (photos)

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www.cleveland.comJune 30, 2015

Leap second keeps atomic clocks in sync with speed of the planet's rotation

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www.abc.net.auJune 30, 2015

Business problems are like clouds, not clocks

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www.cio.co.ukJune 30, 2015

Peoria Public Works employees work around the clock to battle rising water

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